Luigi Mangione, the suspect within the homicide of UnitedHealth Group government Brian Thompson, arrives at a helicopter pad after being extradited from Pennsylvania, in New York, U.S., December 19, 2024.
Eduardo Munoz | Reuters
Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Luigi Mangione with homicide, stalking and a firearms crime within the Dec. 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The federal legal criticism was unsealed Thursday as Mangione, 26, agreed to be extradited to New York to face state courtroom homicide prices in Manhattan for Thompson’s slaying.
Mangione is anticipated to look later Thursday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on the federal criticism.
Mangione consented to be taken by authorities to New York at a listening to Thursday morning in a Pennsylvania courtroom.
Afterward, he was taken to a airplane in Altoona, which departed for New York.
The new federal criticism hinges on the 2 stalking counts, which declare that Mangione traveled to New York on Nov. 24 and used digital communication gadgets to surveil and finally kill Thompson. Both stalking counts be aware that the journey and gadgets concerned so-called interstate commerce, which federal prosecutors usually use as grounds for submitting legal prices that in any other case is perhaps dealt with completely by native or state prosecutors.
The third and fourth federal counts — of homicide via use of a firearm, and firearms offense — accuse Mangione of utilizing and carrying a handgun in relation to the stalking offenses.
Mangione is accused of fatally taking pictures Thompson because the CEO was headed into the Hilton lodge in midtown Manhattan for an investor day of his firm’s mother or father, UnitedHealth Group.
He was arrested 5 days later in Altoona after somebody reported a suspicious particular person in a McDonald’s.
Luigi Mangione, the suspect within the homicide of UnitedHealthcare government Brian Thompson, is seen in a number of views within the roughly 10-15 minute interim between his two hearings at Blair County Court in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 19, 2024 in a courtroom sketch.
Emily Goff | Reuters
The University of Pennsylvania graduate was indicted Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court on one depend of first-degree homicide in furtherance of terrorism and two counts of second-degree homicide, one among which is charged as killing as an act of terrorism.
He was additionally charged with a number of counts of legal possession of a weapon.
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